The good-for-business wars

Buying [we’re called consumers: what do
�we really consume?] things we don’t need
�with money we don’t have. Credit cards
�weren’t invented for our convenience.

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That’s the American Way troops are sent
�to defend in lands where we don’t know
�their language, march through their
�customs, bitch about their religions.

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Most people now can’t even find Kansas
�on a map; Afghanistan might as well
�be on the moon or in some god’s hell.
�Their corpses we see on television

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lack faces as well as names. We
�count our own dead but won’t allot
�money to talk nightmares from brains
�of those who made it out. Who can

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remember a time when we weren’t
�at war someplace? No one in power
�cares that we haven’t won a war
�in seventy years. Still we invade.

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When the same mistake is made over
�and over, it isn’t always stupidity. Some
�times it means that every cooked-up
�invasion earns some people billions.

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